LA SANTA MUERTE – Documentary Screening + Filmmaker Q&A

LA SANTA MUERTE – Documentary Screening + Filmmaker Q&A

Co-presented with Cinemancers

In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing -- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church, is worshipped by people whose lives are filled with danger or violence- criminals, gang members, sick people, drug addicts, LGBTQ individuals and families living in rough neighborhoods. The documentary LA SANTA MUERTE examines the origins of the cult and takes us on a tour of the altars, jails, and neighborhoods in Mexico where the saint's most devoted followers can be found.

LA SANTA MUERTE – 2007, Mexico/USA, 84 min.

Directed, Produced, and Written by: Eva Aridjis Fuentes

Narrated by: Gael García Bernal

Cinematographers: Brian Rigney Hubbard, Tito Reynoso

Sound Recordists: Claudio Osorio, Cristian Manzutto, Danny Hole

Editor: Sonia Arrubla

Protagonists:

Enriqueta Romero Romero, Jesse Ortíz Piña, Jesús Padilla Alonso, Ernestina Ramírez Soto

Bio:

Eva Aridjis Fuentes is a Mexican-American director and writer. She has directed six feature-length films: the narrative films The Favor and The Blue Eyes and the documentaries Children of the Street, La Santa Muerte, Chuy, The Wolf Man and Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus. She also wrote on Narcos: Mexico and co-wrote the graphic novel Monarca, which was published by Harper Collins in 2022.

Discussion following the film with director Eva Aridjis Fuentes.

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